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Strobilus

A cone-shaped fruiting body in general

📖 Definitions of "Strobilus"

noun

1
A cone-shaped fruiting body in general
2
More particularly a more-or-less cone-shaped fruiting body of any of various gymnosperms and vascular sporophytes. According to source and context it might refer to a structure bearing either seeds or spores, that might or might not be seen as an infructescence; usage has varied arbitrarily among authors during the last two centuries.
3
A layered reproductive stage in jellyfish, in which the swimming medusa form is produced.

🔄 Synonyms of "Strobilus"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
conenoun	Anything in the general shape of a cone.
strobilenoun	(botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Strobilus"

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Word	Definition
strobilenoun	(botany) A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, such as the hop or pine; a cone.
conenoun	Anything in the general shape of a cone.
staminate	(botany) Having functional stamens, but (typically) no carpels.
ovulateverb	(intransitive) To produce eggs or ova.
microstrobilusnoun	(botany) The smaller of two kinds of cones or strobili produced by gymnosperms, being male and producing the pollen.
strobilnoun	(botany, zoology) strobilus
megastrobilusnoun	An ovulate cone bearing ovuliferous scales, found in gymnosperms such as the conifers.
sporostegiumnoun	(botany) The so-called fruit of plants in the family Characeae of green algae, consisting of the hard brownish spirally-twisted shell or covering of the spore.
strophiolenoun	(botany) An excrescence or tubercle around the hilum of certain seeds.
stylulusnoun	(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
stylosporenoun	(botany) A spore that has a thin stalk.
stolonnoun	(botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.
stamennoun	(botany) In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
sporangiophorenoun	(botany) A receptacle in ferns which bears the sporangia, usually a stalk, but sometimes a scale (as in horsetails).
spore fruitnoun	(mycology) Synonym of ascocarp.
pseudostromanoun	A body in some lichens that resembles a stroma
sporophyllnoun	(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.
sorusnoun	(botany) A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.
sporodochiumnoun	A small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitized by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (Deuteromycota, Hyphomycetes). It bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed
syconiumnoun	(botany) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole) at the other, with flowers or fruits on the inside